[contraction of ‘Gosling EMACS’] The first
EMACS-in-C implementation, predating but now largely
eclipsed by GNUMACS. Originally freeware; a
commercial version was modestly popular as ‘UniPress EMACS’
during the 1980s. The author, James Gosling, went on to invent
NeWS and the programming language Java; the latter
earned him demigod status.